Research
Articles, tools, and commentary on
climate services and solutions.
climate services and solutions.
Highlights
Mar 08 2024
We developed a regularly-updating, harmonized database of carbon offset projects and credits for download and interactive exploration.
Sep 05 2023
We developed a new dataset modeling the impacts of humid heat now and into the future, in collaboration with The Washington Post. Read the article or the coverage in The Post.
Tools
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Articles
Aug 09 2024
Models broadly agree that climate change is affecting risks. But when it comes to assessing danger for individual addresses, the results can differ significantly.
Models broadly agree that climate change is affecting risks. But when it comes to assessing danger for individual addresses, the results can differ significantly.
Mar 18 2024
There are lots of carbon removal estimates for enhanced weathering in the scientific literature, but making sense of them is hard. We synthesized these estimates to clarify the current state of the science and grapple with its limitations.
There are lots of carbon removal estimates for enhanced weathering in the scientific literature, but making sense of them is hard. We synthesized these estimates to clarify the current state of the science and grapple with its limitations.
Mar 08 2024
Information about carbon offset projects and credits is spread across the internet, making it hard to compare up-to-date data from different sources. Our new, regularly updated database harmonizes offset data from several sources, helping make the offsets market more transparent.
Information about carbon offset projects and credits is spread across the internet, making it hard to compare up-to-date data from different sources. Our new, regularly updated database harmonizes offset data from several sources, helping make the offsets market more transparent.
Sep 14 2023
How should we compare carbon removal approaches that work on different parts of the carbon cycle at different timescales? We explore how understanding equilibration dynamics helps us compare different carbon removal approaches.
How should we compare carbon removal approaches that work on different parts of the carbon cycle at different timescales? We explore how understanding equilibration dynamics helps us compare different carbon removal approaches.
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Commentary
Policy Briefs
Jul 03 2024
Policy Brief
Initial results from the ICVCM assessment process highlight the challenges of reliably identifying high-quality offset credits.
Feb 08 2024
Policy Brief
The state’s cap-and-trade system depends on forest offsets. But forests burn. And the buffer pool isn’t robust enough to protect the system.
Dec 04 2023
Policy Brief
The voluntary carbon market is gearing up to sell corn ethanol CCS projects as carbon removal because they store biogenic CO₂. We explain why this logic falls short.
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Comment Letters
May 08 2024
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Publications
Sep 15 2023
One Earth
For carbon offsets to support temperature stabilization under the Paris Agreement, nearly everything about them must change.
Sep 12 2022
Global Change Biology
An ex post analysis shows that credited carbon sequestration in California projects is likely non-additional. These findings illustrate the importance of using dynamic baseline controls to credit carbon.
Dec 23 2022
Nature Plants
A paper using coupled seaweed growth and technoeconomic models to better understand the potential role of seaweed farming for carbon removal and biomass products.
Aug 05 2022
Frontiers
An actuarial analysis of California's forest carbon offset insurance program shows that it fails to adequately address risks from wildfire and sudden oak death.
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